Pen or pencil clip



Sept. 22, 1925. 1,554,803

H. ESTEROW PEN OR PENCIL CLIP Filed June 8, 1925 avwentoz I MiG/P2 919 sieroM 351 f bto'un Patented Sept. 22, 1925.

UNITED STATES HARRY nsrnnow, or NEW YORK, n. Y.

PEN" OR PENCIL CLIP.

Application filed June 8, 1925. Serial No. 35,557.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HARRY EsTnnoW, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of New York, county of Kings,

and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Pen or Pencil Clips, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an improvement in a safety clip for a pen or pencil, and the object of the invention is to provide a new and improved means for attaching the clip to the pen or pencil. The ,main object, therefore of the invention is to provide an attaching means for the clip which will firmly and securely attach it in position.

With these objects, and such other objects as may hereinafter appear, in View, I have devised the particular arrangement of parts hereinafter set forth and more particularly pointed out in the claim appended hereto.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part hereof, in which- Figure 1 is a longitudinal sectional view of a fountain pen cap, showing the manner in which the clip is secured to the same;

Figure 2 is a front elevation of the same;

Figure 3 is a perspective view of the clip, showing the same before it is attached to the cap.

Throughout the various views of the drawing, similar reference characters designate similar parts.

In the embodiment of my invention disclosed in Fi ures 1 to 3 inclusive, 1 indicates the bocy of a fountain pen cap. I have shown my improved clip attached to a fountain pen cap, although it will be obvious that the same may be attached to a magazine pencil or the like. At 2 is shown the clip which is in the form of a narrow strip of resilient or spring metal, and which has a ball or enlargement 3 secured or integrally formed on its lower end in the usual manner.,

At 4 is an off-set or laterally bent prong which is integrally formed on the upper edge of the clip and whichis one of the members for securing the clip to the cap.

The clip is provided with a perforation 9 located a short distance below its upper edge and thus intermediate of the upper edge of the clip and the enlargement 3 on the lower end of the clip.

A rivet 6 is adapted to extend through the perforation 9 and co-operate with the tongue or prong 4 for securing the clip to the cap. The cap is provided with a pair of spaced aperatures 5 and 7 and the prong 4 extends through the aperature 5 and the rivet 6 passes through the perforation 9 in the clip and also through the aperature 7 in the cap. The prong 4 and the rivet 6 are of sufficient length so that a suitable portion of them projects within the cap and when a suitable cylindrical tool is thrust within the cap, the ends of the prong 4 and rivet 6 and upwardly bent in the same direction, as is clearly indicated in Figure 1.

The bending over of the prong 4 and rivet 6 very securely and rigidly attaches the clip in position upon the cap.

At 8, in Figure 1, is shown an inner bushing which is usually used within fountain pen caps as an abutment for the upper end of the pen barrel and which incidentally acts to cover the bent over ends of the prong 4, and rivet 6.

Having described my invention, what I claim is:

An article of the class described comprising a fountain pen clip having a prong formed on and extending from its top edge, an opening located in said clip at a. point below said top edge, a fountain pen cap having a pair of spaced openings, one of said openings receiving the prong on the cap, said prong being bent over on the inside of the cap, a rivet adapted to pass through the opening in the clip and one of the openings in the cap, said rivet having its inner end projecting into the cap and providing a part adapted to be bent over on the inside of the cap and extending in the same direction as the bent-over prong therein.

Signed at the city, county and State of New York, this 5th day of June, 1925.

HARRY ESTEROW. 

